7.5 tonne driver jobs in Stockport

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Stockport has 260 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 600 in freight transport by road, and 7.5 tonne work is run out of both.

Parcel and wholesale operations are where most C1 rounds sit. In Stockport the courier side alone is 0.19% of the 136,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Stockport, median full-time pay was £35,406 a year in 2025. That is the whole local labour market rather than this job, and there is no published local figure for this job to set beside it.

UK Business Counts recorded 65 postal and courier activities workplaces in Stockport at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 60 of them, 92.3%, employ under ten. The handful that do not are where C1 rounds are loaded and dispatched.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Stockport, 10 are part time, 3.7% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Stockport sits below it, 20th of 24 areas on this measure. Almost all of it is full time, which for C1 work usually means a fixed round rather than relief cover.

Two further counts round out the Stockport picture: 150 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,010 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Stockport ranks 16th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 398, against 260 in Stockport. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Stockport in that order sit Bury at 275 and Halton at 245.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Stockport ranks 22nd of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 115, against 65 in Stockport. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Stockport in that order sit Bury at 80 and Blackpool at 60.

Every figure here counts what exists in Stockport: 260 courier jobs across 65 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.